Minicon is an annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans sponsored
by the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (Minn-StF).
These days the convention is held each year in or near Minneapolis, Minnesota
over Easter weekend. Minicon is Minnesota's longest-running science fiction
convention; the first Minicon was held in 1968.

There is also a semi-official Minn-stf Dreamwidth Community
which is a good place to discuss Minicon, though if you need an answer to a
question it's usually best to contact the convention directly.

If you post pictures taken at Minicon to Flickr or another
photo hosting/sharing website, please tag the photos with "minicon" as
well as a tag for whichever Minicon it is ("minicon59" for example).

Minicons farther in the future

Supposing we continue to strictly hold 3-day Minicons annually on Easter
weekend, following Minicons will be
April 2–4, 2021;
April 15–17, 2022;
April 7–9, 2023;
March 29–31, 2024 (does not overlap with Passover);
April 18–20, 2025;
April 3–5, 2026;
March 26–28, 2027 (does not overlap with Passover).

Radisson Hotel South (Bloomington), now commonly known in fannish circles as the RadishTree. Additionally there were overflow hotels for the largest Minicons (but all programming was in the Radisson): for Minicons 28–30 and 33 the Wyndham Garden, for Minicons 29–33 L'Hotel Sofitel, and for Minicons 31–33 the Holiday Inn Airport 2.

Notes:

Dates: Yes, there were two years we had two Minicons — 1971 and
1974. Even on years with only one Minicon, it hasn't always been on Easter.
Minicons 2, 7 and 8 were on Easter, then all of them starting with 11 (well, as of this writing, up to 54, at least).
So there were 5 Minicons that, you might say, could have been on Easter, but weren't.

Minicon Numbering: Yes, we know the numbering was just a tiny,
wee-bit non-sequential between 1978 and 1985. It's a long story, and really not
that shaggy.

Credits: This list originally by Fred A Levy Haskell, Official Happy Deadwood,
Minn-StF. At last report it is being kept up by the
Minnstf arDONOTTYPETHISchivist, Matt Strait. Documented additions
or corrections will be warmly welcomed. Send to [arDONOTTYPETHISchivist at mnstf dot org].

More Data

Many of the documents from the Long Range Convention
Task-Force are online. This was a task-force chartered in 1991
to consider the problems and concerns we had about Minicon and
consider what we should do for the next 5 years.

We Need Your Help!

We are working on building as complete a digital archive of Minicon's
history as we can!

Physical materials wanted: If you have badges, program books,
pocket programs, photos, progress reports, convention reports, or other stuff
from or relating to past Minicons we're interested in putting that sort of
thing online. Photos and audio or video recordings too. If it's
something we don't have in our own archives, we might be interested in
borrowing items from you or making other arrangements to scan stuff for use on
the website.

Digital materials wanted: If you have items in digital
format or are willing to put things in digital format, you can send that stuff
to us. Please check with us before sending any large files (over 50MB) as email
attachments. If you know where we can find stuff about Minicon or Minn-StF
online that we haven't yet linked to, please pass those links along to us.

Transcriptions wanted: We would like our archives to be
searchable and accessible. This means that we'd like to make
plain text versions of everything that's just an image now. Would you like to
help? Find something that needs transcription and let us know you're going to
work on it.

Requests wanted: If you're looking for something that isn't
here, please let us know. We may already have it on paper and can prioritize
it for scanning.